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 Canadian Geological Discoveries: Wild Fires December 7, 2022 This week for Addison's blog, we will discuss the details of forest fires. Forest Fires are weather disasters that happen in the dry plantation area of the environment. These are one of the most dangerous situations that can happen in any dry forest due to their material being extremely flammable. What causes them and how they affect the environment are great questions, which is why we are going to explain them here in this blog. So what causes a wildfire? Now sometimes it can either be started by lightning strikes in the skies, but this can only happen at certain points in time, depending on the weather. Research shows that about 10 to 20% of lightning strikes cause a fire to burst on the earth, after 100,000 hits from the storms.  However, most of the wildfires are caused by what I call, "Human Error". This is because when people are careless, they can do things that make their surroundings a bit worse. For e...

 Canadian Geological Discoveries: Coastal Hazards November 17, 2022 This week on Addison's blog will be focused on the danger zones in the coastal areas around Canada. Some of these include icebergs, sea ice, fog, and tsunamis. We already know a lot about tsunamis and flooding issues in the previous areas of the blog series, which is why we're going to discuss a few other details that weren't mentioned. First off, there are problems within the coastline that can be extremely catastrophic. When ships set out to sea, they are met with some issues like fog. Fog isn't usually around until midnight when it's extremely cold. This is due to ocean temperature and air mass. Unfortunately for Canada, there is one type of problem that had casualties as a result. In 1914, about more than 1000 people had been killed in the St. Lawrence River in Rimouski Quebec.  Another problem that seems to mess with people is icebergs, which are big pieces of ice drifted by the ocean current f...

 Canadian Geological Discoveries: Extreme Weather Patterns October 26, 2022 Our next topic for this blog will be extreme weather. Extreme weather is an event that is unexpected in the skies that affect the environment. Some examples are thunderstorms, exotic heat, snowstorms, and dry coastal areas. Some of these weather patterns change due to the climate above the atmosphere when a layer of moisture is on top of the troposphere. One of the biggest weather problems to be labeled extreme would be known as Climate Change, which is about how weather changes its conditions uncontrollably and creates other disasters. Some consequences involve sea levels at different heights, increases in temperatures, and heavy rainfalls to soft sprinkles. In the past, this has affected Canada for over 50 years, causing droughts in the North, making the area so warm, it could be a potential target for forest fires. Now for weather in the future, unfortunately for the east coast, there will be some conseq...

 Canadian Geological Discoveries: Mass Wasting October 16, 2022 This week's topic for Canada's geological findings is mass wasting. Mass wasting is when rocks and soil become too unstable and slope down the sides of large hills or cliffs. Some examples of this are debris flows, rock falls, and slumps. Most mass wasting in the country can be found in mostly all the regions of Canada, but most of these can be found in British Columbia, Ontario, and the St. Lawrence Lowlands of Quebec. Another name for these is called Landslides.  The reason why landslides happen is perhaps due to the triggering of multiple hazards. Some of these hazards include heavy rainfalls, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and even coastal erosion. The image below here will show you the different types of landslides that are caused by different hazards. Some of these landslides' speeds can be somewhat slow to extremely quick. That is one of the first things you need to know in order to avoid this type of ...

Special Information About Volcanos What is a volcano and how can it be disastrous to the environment? Volcanoes are mountains filled with either lava or magma. When it erupts, it causes the lava or magma to pour out of the side of the volcano which is very dangerous to touch because the temperature is so hot, it can burn through people's skin and bones. After the lava cools down enough, it hardens and becomes a special magma rock. How can you tell when a volcano can erupt? Well, the question is simple if you feel any tremors from underneath the surface, or a trail of smoke coming from the sky, these are signs that can tell you that a volcanic eruption can occur. Basically, from the 11 Facts about Volcanos website, there is information about how volcanos can erupt, because not all of them have the same production system. For example, some eruptions are made when pressure from within the volcanos is built up. The main radius of how much lava pours out of a volcano is about 20 miles, ...

Geological Findings of Earthquakes September 6, 2022 For this week of Addison's Blog, we will be discussing the shocking discoveries as well as the history of earthquakes. Earthquakes are geological signs of ground shifting which are caused by other natural disasters, such as erupting volcanos from offshore islands, tsunamis, or from within the earth's crusts. There are four types of earthquakes which are volcanic, tectonic, explosion, and collapse.  Each of these earthquakes is different because of the impact they make on the earth's surface above ground and its inhabitants. For volcanic, these come from any volcanos that erupt which in turn causes tectonic movements. Tectonics is about the physical and chemical changes of the earth's edges when they break away from the mainland and form new forms after a series of decades. An example can be found in the previous issue of this blog. The third set of earthquakes is an explosion which is a major earthquake because it is ...